Acclaimed Film Shows How the Songs of Freedom Sustained, Nurtured and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement to Victory

Premieres Monday, May 9, 2011 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. on WTVP 47.1

“You can cage the singer, but not the song.” - Harry Belafonte

Soundtrack for a Revolution
tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music -- the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass
meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality. The film features new performances by top artists including
John Legend, Joss Stone, Wyclef Jean, and The Roots; riveting archival footage; and interviews with civil rights foot soldiers and leaders, including
Congressman John Lewis, Harry Belafonte, Julian Bond, Andrew Young and dozens more. Soundtrack for a Revolution celebrates the vitality
of the freedom songs and explores how these simple but stirring anthems had the power to sustain the movement during its darkest hours. Directed by
Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman (Nanking), and executive produced by Danny Glover, Soundtrack for a Revolution will premiere locally on
the PBS series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. WTVP 47.1

The freedom songs that propelled the civil rights movement -- from the Montgomery bus boycott to lunch counter sit-ins, from Birmingham
to the march on Washington to Selma -- evolved from slave chants, from the labor movement, and especially from the black church. They enabled blacks
to sing words they could not say, and were crucial in helping the civil rights activists as they faced down brutal aggression with dignity and
non-violence. The film weaves together contemporary performances of such timeless songs as “Eyes on the Prize,” “Wade in the Water,” and
“We Shall Overcome,” with heart-wrenching interviews and dramatic footage from the front lines of the fight for freedom.

BILL GUTTENTAG (Director/Writer/Producer)
Bill Guttentag is a two-time Oscar-winning documentary and feature film director/writer/producer. He wrote and directed the dramatic feature
Live! which was distributed by The Weinstein Company. Along with Dan Sturman, Guttentag also wrote and directed the documentary Nanking
which won Peabody and Emmy Awards and also earned Guttentag and Sturman a Writers Guild of America nomination. In 2003 Guttentag won an
Oscar® for the documentary Twin Towers. It was his second Academy Award; the first was for You Don’t Have To Die, for HBO. He has
also received three additional Oscar® nominations, and three Emmy Awards. Guttentag created and executive produced the NBC series Crime & Punishment
and has directed films for HBO, ABC, CBS and others. Since 2001 he has been teaching a class on the film and television business at the Graduate
School of Business at Stanford University.

DAN STURMAN (Director/Writer/Producer)
Together with Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman wrote and directed the Sundance, Emmy, and Peabody award-winning documentary Nanking, and produced
the Academy Award® winning documentary Twin Towers. Between 2001 and 2003, Sturman produced three seasons of the NBC primetime series
Crime & Punishment. In addition to his documentary work, Sturman has worked extensively as a broadcast journalist, reporting and producing
for ABC News, CBS News, and the BBC while based in Los Angeles; for Reuters and NBC News while based in London; and for ABC News 20/20 in New York.
He is currently co-directing The Hollywood Complex, a feature documentary about aspiring child actors in Hollywood.

Executive Producers
DANNY GLOVER and MARK SAMELS

Producers
JOSLYN BARNES, JIM CZARNECKI and DYLAN NELSON

About AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
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Awards, four duPont-Columbia Awards, and twenty-seven Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards, one most recently in Outstanding Directing Nonfiction
for My Lai.

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